[jcarrano]

Either he failed at communicating, or he does not care. Reading the recent thread/flamewar on R4L and DRM I wonder if he was somewhat pressured to accept Rust but does not actually care. If you were the leader of a project and explicitly authorized a sub-project, would you tolerate a maintainer undermining it?

[dralley]

FWIW, there are plenty of backchannels through which discussions about this stuff can be had that aren't the public mailing list. My limited understanding is that those discussions have in fact taken place and the R4L people aren't concerned about things working out eventually.

However, I do wish he would say something publicly, so that the internet peanut gallery doesn't fill the void with negativity. It doesn't exactly help attract more interest in the project.